... , dressed up as 'anti colonialism'. This view is (reluctantly) confirmed by the studiedly anti-Soviet journal Survey (Autumn/Winter 1983). In a detailed run-through Soviet assassinations/covert actions etc. the only significant act they can find that took place recently and involved someone who was not a defector, is the attempt on the Pope, and the evidence on Soviet/Bulgarian involvement is thin, at best. Last| Contents| Next ...

... in Germany for saying that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is worthy of being taken seriously and is used by the Illuminati to control world politics. Later we learn that Himmler was greatly misunderstood and didn't really want the Holocaust; that 'war reparations' are still being paid to Israel; that Jews really worship Satan; that the current Pope was once a salesman for Zyklon B gas; and that Himmler's views on the medical profession and lawyers( 'the very same ones we suffer from today in modern America') are entirely understandable. The book has no footnotes. The bibliography includes something called the German Research Project- available from a P.O. Box in California- ...

... analyst, who said: 'the study bolstered criticism that intelligence assessments of the Soviet threat were deliberately inflated to justify increases in U.S. defence spend-ing and nuclear forces, as well as SDI.' Goodman was one of those in the Agency who did not believe that the KGB- or its Bulgarian allies- had run Ali Agca at the Pope. (9) Notes 1 stuff@intelforum.org- this ceased in October owing to the illness of its moderator, John McCartney. 2 See also, for example, Daily Telegraph, 12 March, Ben Fenton, 'US blunder "triggered global germ bomb race"'. 3 See Scott's essay in Lobster 20 or go to Scott's ...

... that a book describing a whole catalogue of alleged British 'secret war' activities from assassinations down can't just print 'fuck' says quite a lot about the cultural climate in the Republic of Ireland, does it not? Reading 'feck off' my sympathy for those in Northern Ireland who don't want a united Ireland went up a notch. Feck the Pope! (Especially this one) RR Last| Contents| Next ...

... him to Visigoth gold. Both books add little in the way of new and solid information. David Black Notes Someone may have already dug. Wood doesn't mention it, but there is an old mine marked on the map just a few hundred yards from the ruin. In the late 19th century Leo Taxil conned a massive reading public and Pope Leo XIII into believing his wild tales of a Masonic/Satanist body called the Palladium. Eventually he told a massive religious rally in Paris that he'd fabricated it all to further the cause of anti-clericalism. See Satanic Mask by H.T.F. Rhodes, Arrow Books, 1964. Could the current Grandmaster of the Priory of Sion, M. ...

... Way out West: a conspiracy theory The Kincora scandal and related subjects The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation First supplement to A Who's Who of the British Secret State ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Wallace etc The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II Miscellaneous Text of a letter from Dr Hugh Thomas re: Fred Holroyd Lobster is Robin Ramsay (0482 447558) and Steven Dorril (0484 681388). David Teacher is European Correspondent. All written correspondence should be sent to Lobster 214 Westbourne Avenune, Hull, HU5 3JB. UK Lobster receives no subsidy other than the ...

... of a really effective hegemonic concept of control, violence was resorted to in order to enforce a consensus of fear. Although this must remain a hypothesis to be worked out later, the succession of high-level assassinations and engineered removals of top politicians (Willy Brandt in 1974, Gough Whitlam in 1975, Harold Wilson in 1976, Aldo Moro and Pope John Paul I in 1978, and Olof Palme in 1986, to name but the most spectacular cases) can probably only be understood if seen in the context of a single process.' (p. 128) Of the coincidence between right wing terrorism and the rise of free-market liberalism in this period, van der Pijl concludes that ...

... , for "Separated Enemy Personnel'. Some of the Ukranians fell into American hands, and a few were sent on to the Soviets. One or two were discovered with distinctive SS tattoo marks. The Catholic Church did all it could to save what it called these "poor refugees': Bishop Ivan Bucko, with help from the Pope, acted on their behalf in much the same way as Father Dragonovic did with the Croatian Ustashi. After "basking in the sun' in Italy for two years, the British arranged for the 8,000 members of the Galizien SS to move to Britain. Then, with more help from influential Catholics in Britain and Canada, ...

... offered to previous senior Labour Party figures. The point is tellingly made that Blair is very much a successor to Thatcher. In the field of personal beliefs a convincing case is made by Seldon for Blair being a moral individual. His relationship with God, though, is totally personal – rather like Ian Paisley without the bombast. Neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of Canterbury have been able to make much headway against Blair's certainty in his own judgement. The real PM Seldon investigates at some length the Blair-Brown relationship. A repeated view in this book is that 'the deal' between them was that Brown could run UK domestic affairs – the economy and all that flows from that, ...

... However O.D. simply rebuts them by pointing out the lack of positive evidence. This problem pervades the whole book. Friedlander discusses various scandals that people have tried to associate with Opus Dei, including the Vatican/Nazi ratlines to South America, the Banco Ambrosiano/Robert Calvi case, the Swiss Guard murders and even alleged murders of recent Popes. As there is no proof of O.D. involvement and the organisation itself denies any involvement, the author simply returns his verdict of 'nothing to see here – move along'. (He may well be right do so in some cases; readers have no way of knowing.) Much of the rest of the book reads like ...